IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 117716 accession number: M.131-1985 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sticks of cut, pierced, carved and gilt ivory; guards of pierced and gilt ivory, backed with foil and with profiled gold foil. Ribbon of white kid leather. Rivet of steel, washer of steel. Front: there are three gold bordered cartouches with backgrounds of striations, the middle one of which has a fan leaf segment shape showing a couple with a basket of flowers surrounded by trees and arches with classical columns; there is a bird with open wings on the left and two kissing doves on the right on a pedestal. The flanking lobed cartouches are decorated in the same way, enclosing a dog sitting on a pedestal under three swags and between sprays of leaves. The ribbon zone is decorated with gold rectangles with zigzag lines. On the bottom of each stick there is a leaf and on top there is a gold-bordered semicircle with a half flower. In the background there are two flaming hearts and an arrow between sprays of leaves. Back: undecorated. Guards: both guards are decorated in the same way with a slightly scrolling spray of leaves on top. The whole ornament is bordered by a gold frame. title: brisé fan NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel Leonard C. Messel (1872-1953); his daughter Anne, Countess of Rosse (1902-1992) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Messel-Rosse Collection creditline: Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and a gift from The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117716 PEOPLE ------------------- Messel, Leonard Countess of Rosse, Anne CATEGORIES ------ category: fans DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.8